Construction of airmen.dk About airmen.dk * Sources * Construction * FAF Summary * Loss of Lives preliminary edition 23 SEP 2011
There was
a long way from the idea of a website and to the present stage! Finn
Rasmussen from &RASMUSSEN, host of
www.airmen.dk, gave fine technical assistance
and help to get started. Without him nothing would have happened.
You can
easily switch between overview and details in a database. You can see all of the
crew of a plane even if they rest in different cemeteries, and you can see all
in
the same cemetery. There are 12 search criterias to be mixed at will.
Clickable maps of cemeteries, USAAF-airmen and planes are useful.
The database is made in Access 2003 and
the website in FrontPage 2002, Internet Explorer 7, screen 1024 x 768,
print horizontally, landscape.
The Lancaster-button is from
this photo from
Flightline UK and the flags to
indicate languages are from Hotel Randers.
Anders Bjørnvad approved of my plan and
mentioned Søren C. Flensted,
Airwar over Denmark -
(AOD).
Søren C. Flensted accepted my plan, and then it was
possible to move on!
However, in SEP 2011 he has blocked access from
www.airmen.dk!
Visitors on my website then have to search his website via Google!
A
contact to a person with knowledge of airmen very often gives at least a couple
of suggestions of other persons who may have useful information.
See Arne Mosgaard and
Sources. Ole Rønnest gave exact positions of
planes crashed at Aalborg and permission to quote "The Doomed Squadron".
Frank
Weber sent "Western Allied Air
Raids in Denmark during the Second World War" in
2 volumes!
Ove
Hermansen translated a
poem by Paul H. Scott from the Runnymede
Memorial into Danish, and Aage Hill-Madsen translated into English the story of
Wasik, who
was helped to Sweden. From 18 November 2008
Kirsten Klitgård (KK) has translated a number of texts and she is untiring in
the extensive work of reading my texts in English to ensure that readers can
concentrate on the contents.
If nothing else is indicated I have taken the photos. Fortunately, via M.F. Jørgensen and Carsten Jørgensen Hans Andersen has made his great collection of photos of memorials available to www.airmen.dk . He had not been to Bornholm, but Birger Bendtsen from Pedersker sent photos from there. Knud Riis has delivered photos from Esbjerg and 10 other cemeteries! Mogens Jeppesen had fine photos from Aabenraa. Jørgen Toft sent some from Stenbjerg and from islands came this: Else Hjort Nielsen sent photos from Drejø and Skarø, Ebbe Bork from Avernakø, Helene Hennings from Anholt, Ib Walbum from Omø, Eli V. Nielsen from Sejerø and Solvejg Lei from Aarø. The collection of photos of headstones and gravestones was complete by 12. august 2008! Peter Forrester sent photos from Stadil. The list of photographers is short enough to be brought here.
On 5 May 2008 two more monuments at crash sites
were unveiled to WEL BK368 and
LAN ND675. After that I went to Zealand and
Lolland-Falster with my camera.
It was a pleasure to visit Anders Bjørnvad and
later Helge W. Gram. Both of them have written about allied airmen in Denmark.
Each of them gave me useful information
and books! Unfortunately Helge W. Gram passed away in 2009 and Anders Bjørnvad
died in July 2011.
After 4 years with www.airmen.dk there is still work for at least another year. You never really finish a website! Genes Reunited and Geoff's page have been useful.
You are welcome to spread the news of Allied Airmen in Denmark at
www.airmen.dk and link to it!
You may also help to improve the contents in a number of ways.
Contact
Anders Straarup
straarup@linksbuketten.dk / Anders
Straarup, Karetmagervej 25, DK-8920 Randers NV, DENMARK See Linksbuketten
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